What is recorded here

Crannog in Loughpark (dunmore By.) was a 44.5m circular mound of piles, stone, peat and marl with a 3m stone-lined jetty, occupied from the Early Historic through the Medieval period. It sat in low marshy ground prone to flooding, and people lived there anyway, dropping bronze, iron, wood, stone and animal bones into the damp. The mound no longer shows on the surface, but the jetty line and buried layers still mark where human hands shaped the lough edge.

In low-lying marshy ground prone to flooding. Macalister et al. (1914, 147-51) investigated this crannog (D c. 44.5m, H 1.2m) and described it as 'an insignificant circular mound, shaped like an inverted saucer, with a shallow ditch around it'. Subsequent excavations revealed that it was constructed of piles infilled with stone, peat and marl, with a stone-lined jetty (L 3m) at N. Finds included bronze, iron, wooden and stone artifacts, as well as numerous animal bones, suggesting occupation in both the Early Historic and Medieval periods. No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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